Sicily, Syracuse, Time of Timoleon and the Third Democracy (344-317 BC), Æ (16,05 g; 24,4 mm)
ZEYΣ EΛ-EY-ΘEPIOΣ, bearded and laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios r.; Rv. ΣYPAKO-ΣION, thunderbolt, eagle with closed wings to r. Calciati 72; SNG ANS 477-478. Green patina. Slight traces of delicate cleaning; some encrustations. Fields gently smoothed; possible evidence of minimal tooling, otherwise extremely fine.
From a private European collection formed in the 1980s.